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From Alexa-powered smart glasses to a serious AirPods competitor: These are the 8 craziest and coolest new gadgets Amazon unveiled in an hours-long event on Wednesday

Ben Gilbert   

From Alexa-powered smart glasses to a serious AirPods competitor: These are the 8 craziest and coolest new gadgets Amazon unveiled in an hours-long event on Wednesday
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Amazon new Echo devices lineup

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Amazon revealed a wide array of new stuff on Wednesday.

  • Amazon announced a vast array of new gadgets on Wednesday.
  • Standouts included the company's first-ever smart glasses, Echo Frames, and wireless earphones, Echo Buds.
  • The big focus for Amazon's product blitz was Alexa-powered electronics, as Amazon moves from smart speakers to smart home.
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On Wednesday at Amazon's Seattle headquarters, the company unleashed a tidal wave of new products aimed directly at your home - and one of them is aimed right at your face!

Don't worry: We're just talking about a pair of smart glasses here, the Echo Frames.

The new glasses are Amazon's first foray into the world of smartglasses, and are part of a long list of new products and updates to the Echo line of devices that Amazon revealed on Wednesday. Amazon also showed off a new smart oven, wireless earphones that seem directly intended to compete with Apple's AirPods, and much, much more.

Here's the best of what Amazon just revealed at its big reveal event:

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